What does "hiding from noon" mean during the Dragon Boat Festival? Analysis of the customs of returning to one's parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival in different regions!

What does "hiding from noon" mean during the Dragon Boat Festival? Analysis of the customs of returning to one's parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival in different regions!
Introduction: The Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival. In some areas, there is a custom of returning to one’s parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival. So what does “hiding from the noon” mean during the Dragon Boat Festival? An analysis of the customs of returning to one’s parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival in different areas! The earthly branch of the fifth month in the lunar calendar is Wu, which represents Yang Fire, so it is also called the Wu month. The fifth month in the lunar calendar is the time when summer insects chirp and midsummer is fragrant. For more information on the do’s and don’ts of the fifth month in the lunar calendar in 2019, please pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo’s website!

What does “hiding from noon” mean during the Dragon Boat Festival?

In Chinese folk culture, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is known as the "poisonous month", and the Double Fifth Festival is an even more unlucky day.
Therefore, men and women should not have sexual intercourse during the Dragon Boat Festival, otherwise it will easily cause serious damage to people's vitality.
In order to prevent such things from happening, the clever ancients had the custom of letting women return to their parents' home and live there for a month in May.
There is also a custom that babies under one year old should be sent to their grandmother's house to hide during the Dragon Boat Festival to escape disasters.

Analysis of the customs of returning to one’s parents’ home during the Dragon Boat Festival in different regions!

Guangdong
People in Guangdong attach great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival. According to the old custom, people send gifts to the festival from the second to the fourth day of the fifth lunar month. Generally, when returning to one's parents' home, one must use six or four "full boxes" filled with rice dumplings, pork, raw chicken, eggs, fruits, wine, etc. to congratulate the elders. A new bride who has just gotten married must weave hanging bags and sachets with five-colored silk threads in advance and give them to her underage children at her parents' home. On the one hand, it reflects the new bride's virtue, and on the other hand, it reflects her craftsmanship, commonly known as "new bride's craftsmanship."
Beijing area
In Beijing, daughters who have become nuns must dress themselves up beautifully when they return to their parents' home. When visiting relatives, they would tie colorful silk threads on their arms and wear red velvet flowers on their chests. The skillful daughters-in-law can also weave colorful rice dumplings. Some of the colorful rice dumplings contain Chinese herbal medicine, which has the meaning of blessing birthdays, preventing diseases, avoiding plagues and poisons, and hoping for good luck and beauty. They are given to parents to pray for blessings and longevity.
Hubei Province
In Hubei region, there is a saying among the people that "Dragon Boat Festival is more important than New Year's Day, and girls return to their parents' homes." Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is even more grand than the Spring Festival. Not only do people buy new clothes and shoes for their parents, but they also prepare a variety of Dragon Boat Festival delicacies. An indispensable custom is to boil the duck eggs, peel them, and then cut them into different colors before returning to her parents' home.

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